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Dr. Mike Graham is an experimental ecologist interested in
the population biology of habitat-forming species, and the
role that variability in the population dynamics and biogeography
of these species plays in regulating the ecology and evolution
of their associated communities. His research program currently
focuses on seaweed-based systems (primarily kelps) and has
two primary objectives. First, to investigate the various
physiological, ecological, and genetical processes that regulate
kelp population biology, and thus the temporal and spatial
dynamics of the kelp habitat. Second, to examine the consequences
of such habitat dynamics on the various physical and biological
processes that ultimately determine the productivity, structure,
and diversity of kelp forest communities. His research spans
microscopic to global spatial scales and ecological to evolutionary
temporal scales, and focuses on both top-down (e.g. herbivory,
competition, disturbance, facilitation) and bottom-up forces
(e.g. recruitment, photosynthetic physiology).
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